349548 - Local PHP Web pages will not display in browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258012

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[alexandra andrews]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060527 SUSE/1.5.0.4-1.9 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060527 SUSE/1.5.0.4-1.9 Firefox/1.5.0.4

I cannot open php web pages/files on Firefox using file:///
I get this error message
You have chosen to open ...
which is a PHP script from ...
What should Firefox do with this file?
Open with ..
Save to disk ...
do this automatically for files like this from now on.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open php web page using file:///
2. will not display in browser
3.

Actual Results:  
I never am able to see what a webpage looks like using Firefox unless I upload the page to the actual server
Opera 9.01 has no problems displaying local php web files

Expected Results:  
The local php web files should be displayed in the browser. Developers need to check their work before uploading.

Opera has no problems displaying local php web files

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258012 ***